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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Saudi ArabiaCongo - KinshasaIsrael
19,96451,1815,927
20,42652,7826,088
20,95654,4536,236
21,54956,1706,366
22,18957,8606,484
22,85059,5996,603
23,51661,4746,723
24,17863,4796,846
24,84165,5906,972
25,51867,8007,100
26,22770,1147,226
27,06872,5507,360
27,81075,1387,498
28,51677,7927,637
29,22080,5347,781
29,93683,3687,931
30,64686,2298,091
31,36089,1938,251
32,18492,2098,412
32,86995,2328,576
33,66198,3208,742
34,542101,4998,899
33,651104,7679,047
34,081108,1719,188

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Saudi Arabia

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

Israel

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.